[AAR] Really really lucky MEC soldier

[Plastic_Knife]

So last night I was playing on Muttrah City. A BMP was assaulting our position so I ran up some stairs to the second floor of a small building to get in cover but i got hit by the BMP right before i turned the corner, enough to make me start bleeding. I noticed some MEC troops coming down the road so i grabbed a dead guy's automatic rifleman kit,went prone, and deployed the bipod.
I took aim at the closest enemy first who was hugging the wall near the intersection. I fired a short burst and he didn't drop. I fired several more bursts and he didn't drop, though i think i may have hit him once, and at this point he started zig-zagging away from me so i just went fully automatic and held the sight on him. I must have fired close to a hundred rounds at this guy, tracers and dust flying up everywhere and he never got hit by another bullet. He finally ducked around a corner and i changed targets, taking aim at a soldier farther up the street. I fired one burst and he dropped, then the weapon clicked empty and i got shot. I have no idea how the first guy survived, I was holding the acog sight on his chest at about 20 meters. Was it because i was injured or I didn't wait long enough before i started firing?

[Shepard]

Is your in game name John Rambo?

long bursts on mg's dont work, give the weapon a small time to set up, couple of seconds, then use burst rounds of about 5 rounds.

[Plastic_Knife]

no my name is plastic_knife in game as well, and yeah yeah I know but I just think that it's a statistical impossibility that he didn't die

[Stoic Sentinel]

Judging from your circumstances, my guess is that you didn't let the deviation settle before firing, especially true since you were using an AR.

[PLODDITHANLEY]

I think we all get that kind of stuff sometimes, I rest convinced that game time is ten times faster than real time so maybe deviation wasn't settled.

[Click]

That MEC soldier must of been counting his lucky stars after that encounter with the AR firing around him.

[Celestial1]

went prone, and deployed the bipod.

Well, there's your problem.

Going prone is a nono.
Going deployed increases settle time (in exchange for better accuracy/less recoil).

Combine those, and firing before letting it settle, and you won't hit a damn thing if you're not lucky.